Spiders with ‘long whippy’ tails found in 100 million year old amber

Well here’s another reason to be thankful you live in the 21st century.

Apart from the joys of flushing toilets and technology that allows you to order food without talking to another human, we get to enjoy the fact that spiders are mildly less terrifying than they were 100 million years ago.

Yes, we know that spiders are still terrifying.

But waaay back in the age of the dinosaurs, spider-like creatures roamed the earth with “long, whippy” tails.

This revelation comes after scientists discovered critters preserved in amber on a tree in Myanmar for roughly 100 million years.

A report from seven scholars tells us these bugs – a member of the spider and scorpion families – had long, slender structures called flagellums sticking out of their butts.